chapter 24-2
“You’re talking about that … contraption outside?” Cabello’s lips pulled back in a rictus of a grin. “Our Mechaniks in the capital have made us a magnificent tool. We just received it by train yesterday. A proper trap to catch rats with.” Ling and Stubbs had been discouraged from getting too close to the area where the machine was. The heavy hammer blows, along with the three-story-high scaffolding and hubbub, had been hard to ignore. “You were already planning an invasion,” Ling concluded. Of course. That was why Cabello was there in the first place. “It has been in the works for some time. That el Revólver del Diablo has returned to Mexico is a sign.” He tapped his flabby lips, greed glinting bright in his eyes. “It would make quite a trophy, along with Punta’s head.” “You’re gonna n
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